West Caldwell,NJ — Fancort was approached by a well known government agency with a requirement for a very accurate, low force, assembly press with heater plates for compressing and heating semiconductor materials. The application was R&D, and the device had to incorporate extreme versatility to ...

Richardson, TX — The ASSET® ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments provides what is described as the industry's first toolkit to automate the development of validation and test routines based on the soon-to-be ratified Internal JTAG (IEEE P1687 IJTAG) standard.

Lake Bluff, IL — To simplify ordering and purchasing, Buehler has created its new Sum-Met Bundles, which contain all the grinding and polishing consumables required to prepare 100 specimens. Using one part number and one price, laboratory, medical, quality control, university and other material ...

Worcester, MA — The Cryogenic Institute of New England, Inc. has acquired an additional cryogenic thermal cycling system which will allow for expanded capacity and enhance the company's Nitrofreeze® Cryogenic Treatment Service and Nitrofreeze Cryogenic Thermal Cycling Service. These processes have been used ...

Stutensee, Germany — Digitaltest GmbH and JTAG Technologies, Eindhoven, Netherlands, have integrated their test methods within the Digitaltest MTS series of in-circuit test systems. As a result, electronics designers and manufacturers will benefit from even greater test coverage and programmability ...

Milwaukie, OR — ECD has released its PTP® VP-8 thermal profiling kit for vapor phase soldering. As boards become more complex, with a range of high- and low-mass and lead-free passive and active components, vapor phase soldering is enjoying a strong comeback as a method of choice for hi-rel, complex ...

Endicott, NY — Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. has added LCP Laminates to its family of microelectronics packaging product offerings. Custom designed LCP Laminates are suitable for semiconductor packages as LCP coreless designs for up to 6 layers as well as in combination with other rigid ...

Cranston, RI — Epoxies, Etc. has developed a new potting, encapsulating, and casting resin, called 20-2121. The new product is a two-component, low viscosity, room temperature curing system. According to the company, it is an easy-to-use polyurethane that will cushion and protect sensitive electronic ...

West Caldwell, NJ — Fancort Industries is now a North American distributor of the Japan UNIX robotic laser soldering systems. Laser soldering has some distinct advantages over contact soldering when it is difficult to get a soldering iron to the point of contact, or throughput needs to be higher ...

Wunstorf, Germany — New from GE's Inspection Technologies business, the phoenix nanotom m, has been developed to help meet the fast growing demand for high resolution and high precision X-ray computed tomography (CT) in non-destructive 3D analysis and 3D metrology. The system provides fully automated ...

Jena, Germany — Goepel electronic has introduced a special linking software to migrate test vectors to Agilent In-Circuit Testers (ICT). The vector link was developed in cooperation with the GATE Program member WG-Test and supports the transfer of hybrid Boundary Scan test sets to the parallel ...

Lutterworth, UK — Contract manufacturing specialist, JJS Electronics Ltd., has adopted DEK's new ProActiv technology at its production facilities in the UK. This is the latest part of a large-scale, seven-figure investment program that to enhance the company's production facilities in the UK and the Czech Republic ...

Eindhoven, Netherlands — JTAG Live is being called a "breakthrough" product for design engineers for debugging boards that are too crowded for traditional probing. JTAG Live enables sensing signal levels on prototype PCBs, while verifying proper continuity between pins or groups of pins, and ...

Carlsbad, CA — Nordson ASYMTEK has been selected by LG Display Co., Ltd. as the exclusive provider of dispensing equipment for LG's LED BLU manufacturing operations in Nanjing and Guangzhou, China. The automated dispensing equipment installations at both sites are part of an ongoing relationship between the ...

Cary, NC — Lord Corporation has introduced a new thermally conductive silicone encapsulant. Designed for applications where high heat dissipation is required, the encapsulant, called SC-305 is a two-component silicone system that is especially suited for LED lighting power supply encapsulation. The ...

Willow Grove, PA — Manncorp's dual-head MC-392 placement rate of 6,400 cph and large feeder capacity allow the system to be called on for high-mix assembly applications — from product development to mid-level manufacturing. The machine's high-precision features include ball screw X-Y drive and ...

Renton, WA — Microscan has introduced the newest solution for inspecting and verifying package label content — the VS-1 Track and Trace, which combines the VS-1 Smart Camera and Visionscape® I-PAK® Software with a complete set of lighting, optics and other accessories. The system is optimized ...